"verse describes her tempting ""Deacon Lowdown"" when she ""wiggled her jelly roll at him"". Finally, they took Minnie to ""where they put the crazies"", where she dies. This explains why both the short version and the long version end with the words ""Poor Min, poor Min"". Minnie herself is mentioned in a number of other Cab Calloway songs, including ""Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day"", ""Ghost of Smoky Joe"", ""Kickin' the Gong Around"", ""Minnie's a Hepcat Now"", ""Mister Paganini - Swing for Minnie"", ""We Go Well Together"", and ""Zah Zuh Zaz"". Some of these songs indicate that Minnie's boyfriend Smoky was"
"Zone"", with altered lyrics and titled ""Squeezit the Moocher"", after one of the movie's characters, Squeezit Henderson. Danny Elfman, playing a rather vaudevillian Satan, sings the song as his band (other members of Oingo Boingo at the time) respond to his calls. Oogie Boogie's song from ""The Nightmare Before Christmas"", which Elfman composed the music for, is also similar to ""Minnie the Moocher"". The popular refrain is performed by a funeral band in the 1999 film ""Double Jeopardy"" The song is played multiple times in the early stages of the 2013 film ""Magic Magic"" starring Juno Temple. In 1932, Calloway"
"most popular recording of ""Minnie the Moocher"" available on the iTunes Store. Laurie also performs a part of the song in the first episode of the British comedy television series ""Jeeves and Wooster"", playing the role of Bertie Wooster, duetting with Reginald Jeeves, played by Stephen Fry. The episode first aired in 1990, but it is unsure exactly when it was set, as the overall setting for this show is given as the 1920s and 1930s. A recording was later released on the ""Jeeves and Wooster"" soundtrack. Opera singer Grace Moore performed the song in the 1937 film When You're"
"song ""Jerry The Junker"": ""Well, you've heard about Minnie The Moocher/ And about Smokey Joe / Gather 'round friends and I'll tell you a tale / Of a cat you oughta know"". Calloway performed the song in the 1955 movie ""Rhythm and Blues Revue"", filmed at the Apollo Theater. Much later, in 1980 at age 73, Calloway performed the song in the movie ""The Blues Brothers"". Calloway's character Curtis, a church janitor and the Blues Brothers' mentor, magically transforms the band into a 1930s swing band and sings ""Minnie the Moocher"" when the crowd becomes impatient at the beginning of"
"black American Jazz singer, who drew heavy influences from Jewish music, even going so far to be considered an ""Afro-Yiddishist."" Calloway's friendship with his Jewish manager, Irving Mills was Calloway's main gateway into the world of Jewish music and songs. Calloway also said he learned about Jewish music when he was a kid and would go to hear the cantors sing in synagogues, which he claims directly influences his notable ""<nowiki>""</nowiki>Hi-De-Ho' style,"" exemplified in his hit song and later famous animation, ""Minnie the Moocher.""Calloway directly paid homage to the Yiddish culture introduced to him by Irving Berlin in his song"
"initially wanted to do a disco variation on his signature tune, ""Minnie the Moocher"", having done the song in several styles in the past, but Landis insisted that the song be done faithful to the original big-band version. The film's score includes ""God Music"" (instrumental with choir vocalese) composed by Elmer Bernstein, who previously had worked with John Landis on ""National Lampoon's Animal House"". Other songs in the film include: The 1998 sequel, ""Blues Brothers 2000"", had similar traits to the original, including large car-chase scenes and musical numbers. Landis returned to direct the film and Aykroyd reprised his role,"
"Minnie's Yoo-Hoo ""Minnie's Yoo Hoo"" is a song in the 1929 Mickey Mouse cartoon, ""Mickey's Follies"". The song was composed by Walt Disney and Carl Stalling. It was the first Disney song to be released on sheet music. This song is a praise to Minnie along with animal sounds and animals also praising Minnie. This song had been the theme song of the original Mickey Mouse Clubs in theaters, as clips from ""Mickey's Follies"" encouraged a sing-along as it had been distributed to theatres. This song has been popular on records. It was played over the credits to Disney's 1972"
"when another cast member fell ill. She may have served as the influence for Cab's signature ""Hi De Ho"" chant in his song ""Minnie the Moocher"". He says he came up with the phrase when he forgot the words during a performance, but his sister had performed and recorded a song earlier in 1931 called ""Just a Crazy Song"". In the song, Calloway opened it with her wailing ""Hi Hi Hi, Ho De Ho De Ho"", with the backing band performing call and response. Another song of Calloway's, ""Growlin' Dan"", tells the story of Minnie the Moocher and the King"
"television series ""The Mouse Factory"", and was also used as the theme song of Don Ramón in ""El Chavo del Ocho"". Minnie's Yoo-Hoo ""Minnie's Yoo Hoo"" is a song in the 1929 Mickey Mouse cartoon, ""Mickey's Follies"". The song was composed by Walt Disney and Carl Stalling. It was the first Disney song to be released on sheet music. This song is a praise to Minnie along with animal sounds and animals also praising Minnie. This song had been the theme song of the original Mickey Mouse Clubs in theaters, as clips from ""Mickey's Follies"" encouraged a sing-along as it"
"was Don Kirshner. Both Cherry and Kirshner had previously worked on ""The Monkees"", Cherry having written the episode ""Some Like It Lukewarm"" in 1968, while Kirshner was the original musical supervisor for The Monkees until early 1967. Although the show has not been released on video, there is an LP of most of the songs from the series, omitting ""Baby Blue"", ""You're Under My Spell"" and, ironically, the show's theme. The LP was released by Kirshner Records and Tapes in 1977. One of the songs from the series, ""When It Hit Me (The Hurricane Song)"" was released as a single;"
"to Toodles, a small, Mickey-head-shaped flying extension of the Mousekedoer. By calling ""Oh, Toodles!"" Mickey summons him to pop up from where he is hiding and fly up to the screen so the viewer can pick which tool Mickey needs for the current situation. The show features two original songs performed by American alternative rock band They Might Be Giants, including the opening theme song, in which a variant of a ""Mickey Mouse Club"" chant (""Meeska Mooska Mickey Mouse!"") is used to summon the Clubhouse. They Might Be Giants also perform the song used at the end of the show,"
"exactly matched the word ""meany,"" he was still portrayed as a wannabe tough guy. Meany, Miny, and Moe Meany, Miny, and Moe are Walter Lantz characters, who made their first appearance in the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon ""Monkey Wretches"" (1935). Their final animated appearance was in 1937 in ""The Air Express"". According to their theme song, the trio are ""just three monkeys from the sticks / just a bunch of jungle hicks / but they know a lot of tricks."" At first portrayed as unclothed identical triplets in the Oswald cartoons, the monkeys began wearing clothes and behaving individually"
"Meany, Miny, and Moe Meany, Miny, and Moe are Walter Lantz characters, who made their first appearance in the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon ""Monkey Wretches"" (1935). Their final animated appearance was in 1937 in ""The Air Express"". According to their theme song, the trio are ""just three monkeys from the sticks / just a bunch of jungle hicks / but they know a lot of tricks."" At first portrayed as unclothed identical triplets in the Oswald cartoons, the monkeys began wearing clothes and behaving individually when they graduated to their own series. Meany is a wannabe tough guy, often"
"in Love, in a departure from her usual style. Although it is not heard, the song is mentioned by name in the 1991 Sylvester Stallone movie, ""Oscar"". In 1992, rapper Positive K made a song called Minnie the Moocher for his 1992 album The Skills Dat Pay da Bills. It is performed on screen with video of Cab at every New York Jets home game. It has been featured twice in the television show, Family Guy. Once in the episode Blue Harvest, and then again in Finders Keepers Minnie the Moocher ""Minnie the Moocher"" is a jazz song first recorded"
"and the NBC-TV series ""Quincy, M.E."". He wrote both words and music for the title song of Disney’s animated series ""DuckTales"" (performed by Jeff Pescetto) and ""Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers"" (performed by Pescetto on the series and The Jets on the ""Disney Afternoon"" album). He also wrote the theme song for 1991 film ""The Little Engine That Could"". Mueller co-wrote the title song and the script for a CBS-TV pilot he executive produced titled ""Shangri-La Plaza"". The ""DuckTales"" theme was performed live twice on NBC's ""Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon"" in 2018. In March 2018, it was sung by"
"(Theme From) The Monkees ""(Theme from) ""The Monkees"""" is a 1966 popular song, written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart as the theme song for the TV series ""The Monkees"". Two versions were recorded - one for their first album ""The Monkees"" and a second shorter version designed to open the television show. Both versions feature vocals by Micky Dolenz. The full length version was released as a single in several countries including Australia, where it became a hit, reaching #8. It also made ""Billboard Magazine""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s ""Hits of the World"" chart in both Mexico and Japan, reaching the Top 20"
"Minnie were recorded as being 48 and 39 years old, respectively, which implies that Minnie was born about 1880, not 1875. She was said to have been a ""decade or so younger"" than her husband (""Boogie Man"", p. 23), which gives additional credibility to this census record as evidence of Hooker's origins. The Hooker children were home-schooled. They were permitted to listen only to religious songs; the spirituals sung in church were their earliest exposure to music. In 1921, their parents separated. The next year, their mother married William Moore, a blues singer, who provided John Lee with an introduction"
"the movie's climactic production number. According to director John Landis in the 1998 documentary ""The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers""', Calloway initially wanted to do a disco variation on his signature tune, having done the song in several styles in the past, but Landis insisted that the song be done faithful to the original big band version. In the 1979 film ""Escape to Athena"", Stefanie Powers sings ""Minnie the Moocher"" for an audience of German officers in a POW camp. The band The Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo performed the song in the Richard Elfman film ""Forbidden"
"Pokémon Theme The ""Pokémon Theme"" (also known as ""Gotta Catch 'Em All"") is a song written by John Siegler and John Loeffler and performed by Jason Paige. It was the theme song for the first season of the English adaptation of the ""Pokémon"" anime. Since its release, the song has been virtually synonymous with the ""Pokémon"" franchise because the line ""Gotta Catch 'Em All"" has become its official slogan. Siegler and Loeffler wrote the lyrics to the song while Siegler (best known at the time as the bassist for Todd Rundgren's Utopia from 1973 to 1976) produced the track, also"
"Hatch. In 2004 Hatch said: A selection of cues were recorded, including ""Meg's Theme"" which eventually became the standard opening theme, ""Kitty's Theme"" which was phased out as action focussed on the motel, the closing theme which combined both ""Meg's"" and ""Kitty's"" themes, and a variety of background pieces. A rerecording by The Tony Hatch Sound was issued as a single by Pye Records in 1965. A special arrangement of the theme by Paul McCartney and Wings, was also used from the late seventies, usually when an episode ended with a dramatic event. Central Independent Television's head of music Johnny"
"from the Future"" from his 2009 album ""'Em Are I"". In 1931, the same year that Calloway recorded the first version of ""Minnie"", his sister Blanche (who performed as Blanche Calloway with her ""Joy Boys"") recorded ""Growlin' Dan"", in which Minnie is evoked, along with a variation on Calloway's ""hi-di-ho"". In 1940, The Dandridge Sisters performed the Jimmie Lunceford song ""Minnie the Moocher is Dead"". Calloway appeared in the 1980 film ""The Blues Brothers"" and sang a newly-recorded version ""Minnie The Moocher"", in the original style of big band. Minnie is referenced in Clarence Williams (musician) And His Orchestra's 1934"
"At the show which is held at a night club, Poodles sings the jazz song ""Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day"" (by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler). Still madly in love with her, Pooch tries to approach the singer even on stage. This continued until he is pulled and kicked out of the club. Minutes later, Poodles' desperate former lover comes by to take her away. The singer refuses to go but the former lover carries her away in the stage coach. Pooch, who is outside, hears her cries for help, and rides to her rescue. On his bike, Pooch chases"
"recorded the song for a Fleischer Studios ""Talkartoon"" short cartoon, also called ""Minnie the Moocher"", starring Betty Boop and Bimbo, and released on March 11, 1932. Calloway and his band provide most of the short's score and themselves appear in a live-action introduction, playing ""Prohibition Blues"". The thirty-second live-action segment is the earliest-known film footage of Calloway. In the cartoon, Betty decides to run away from her parents after they insist in old-country broken English that she eat Hasenpfeffer despite her not wanting to (to the Harry Von Tilzer tune ""They Always Pick on Me""), and Bimbo comes with her."
"Jimmie Dodd James Wesley Dodd (March 28, 1910 – November 10, 1964) was an American actor, singer and songwriter, best known as the MC of the popular 1950s Walt Disney television series ""The Mickey Mouse Club,"" as well as the writer of its well-known theme song, ""The Mickey Mouse Club March."" A slowed-down version of this march, with different lyrics, became the ""alma mater"" that closed the show. Dodd had some early film roles in ""The Three Mesquiteers"" series of westerns. Coincidentally, he performed in two unrelated series whose names were plays on ""musketeers"". He made his first screen appearance"
"as the children thanking the sponsors at the beginning and end of the show. The show's theme song was written by Stephen Horelick, Dennis Neil Kleinman, and Janet Weir; Horelick also served as the series' music director and composer and received an Emmy nomination in 2007 for his work on the series. Over the show's 23-year run, it went through three variations of the theme song. The original theme was performed by Tina Fabrique and featured one of the first uses of the Buchla synthesizer in a TV theme song. The original opening sequence consisted of a cartoon butterfly transforming"
"version has remained the same even with the name change. It begins with a cast member named Casey/Sammy (he or she) running on stage while the Playhouse Disney theme song plays. Casey/Sammy then asks the audience to yell out their names. While everyone is yelling, Mickey Mouse himself yells out his name, and then invites the audience to his clubhouse. As guests arrive at the clubhouse, Mickey and Casey/Sammy sing the ""Mickey Mouse Clubhouse"" theme song, during which Donald, Daisy, Goofy and Minnie also appear. At the clubhouse, Mickey informs guests that it's Minnie's birthday. In order to help out,"
"episodes were named ""capers"". The catchy theme song, written by the accomplished team of Mack David and Jerry Livingston, typified the show's breezy, jazzed atmosphere. The song became the centerpiece of an [ album] of the show's music in Warren Barker-led orchestrations, which was released in 1959, a top-10 hit in the ""Billboard"" LP charts. The Kookie character became a cultural phenomenon, with his slang expressions such as ""ginchy"" and ""piling up Zs"" (sleeping). When Kookie helped the detectives on a case by singing a song, Edd Byrnes began a singing career with the novelty single ""Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me"
"the rhyme. In Salman Rushdie's ""The Moor's Last Sigh"" (1995), the leading character and his three sisters are nicknamed Ina, Minnie, Mynah and Moor. Rex Stout wrote a 1962 Nero Wolfe novella titled ""Eeny Meeny Murder Mo"". In the 1930s, animation producer Walter Lantz introduced the cartoon characters Meany, Miny, and Moe (later Meeny, Miney and Mo). First appearing in Oswald Rabbit cartoons, then in their own series. The 1933 Looney Tunes cartoon ""Bosko's Picture Show"" parodies MGM as ""TNT pictures"", whose logo is a roaring and burping lion with the motto ""Eenie Meanie Minie Moe"" in the place of"
"broke the major broadcast network color barrier. Like other bands fronted by a singing bandleader, Calloway initially gave ample soloist space to its lead members and, through the varied arrangements of Walter ""Foots"" Thomas, provided much more in the way of musical interest. Many of his records were ""vocal specialties"" with Calloway's vocals taking up the majority of the record. In 1931 Calloway recorded his most famous song, ""Minnie the Moocher"". That song, along with ""St. James Infirmary Blues"" and ""The Old Man of the Mountain"", were performed for the Betty Boop animated shorts ""Minnie the Moocher"" (1932), ""Snow White"""
"own main theme ""which seems to play hide and seek with Coates’s throughout the film, both vying for supremacy."" The variety hall sequence in the film features the 1942 song ""Sing Everybody Sing"" by John P Long. In 1999, British television network ITV broadcast a censored version of the film, removing all utterances of ""Nigger"" (the real name of the unit's mascot, a black labrador). ITV blamed regional broadcaster London Weekend Television, which in turn alleged that a junior staff member had been responsible for the unauthorised cuts. When ITV again showed a censored version in June 2001, it was"
"Crockett's Theme ""Crockett's Theme"" is an instrumental song written for the hit NBC series ""Miami Vice"". The surname Crockett refers to Don Johnson's character, James ""Sonny"" Crockett. The initial version of the theme first appeared in the episode Calderone's Return: Part 1 – The Hit List which aired on 19 October 1984. The song was composed by Jan Hammer and appears on the album ""Miami Vice II"", the second volume of music from the television show. It also appeared on Jan Hammer's 1987 album ""Escape from Television"". Although not a big success in the United States, the song was a"
"entire bed and knocked dizzy. Stalling's score for ""The Karnival Kid"" features two notable themes. During the ""Shimmy Dance"" sequence, a monkey, performing as a one-man band, plays the Snake Charmer song, the common name for The Streets of Cairo. During the moonlight serenade segment, Mickey and the cats perform a rendition of the barbershop standard Sweet Adeline. Mickey's first words may have inspired the ""Hot Dog"" song from ""Mickey Mouse Clubhouse"". The scene where Mickey tips his ears to Minnie inspired storyman Roy Williams to invent the Mickey Mouse ears hat. Ub Iwerks reused elements of the plot and"
"Taylor, Brian Kubach as Riley, Shane Lyons as Manny Kin, Eric Allan Kramer as Coach Gunderson, Chelsea Staub as Kari Langsdorf, Sara Paxton as Millie, Julie Brown as Ms. Angela and Jeff Garlin as Uncle Kelbo. The series was created and as executive produced by Todd J. Greenwald, who began developing the show after working as a writer and consulting producer during the first season of ""Hannah Montana"". The show is produced by It's a Laugh Productions and Disney Channel Original Productions. The theme song, ""Everything Is Not What It Seems"", written by John Adair and Steve Hampton, is of"